Can someone please tell me why all of a sudden My CO pages are huge. I have to scroll side by side to read them or hit the apple key and the minus key to get them in frame. I use firefox (ver. 3.03) I changed my font and the size but that was not it. It does not happen with any other web pages just CO.

Yeah, I remember this one too. And I’ll say the same thing (more or less) now that I said then — while the cat may like that horse, I’m pretty sure he’s rubbin’ and rollin’ because he wants the human filming him to put down the damn camera and PET him, already!

Personally, I’d have filmed for about thirty seconds and then started loving on both kitty and horse. :)

This is f-king great! Im from Sweden and the stuff he sings, and reading Bamse (the bear he sings about) when I was a kid just make it go over the top. Combined with the loving kitteh its just.. too much!! hahahahaha

Well the catchy Finnish song from the Moose video is “Leva’s Polka” by Loituma from their CD “Things of Beauty.” But I’d love to get the music from this one. I host a world music radio show at Stanford University and I would totally play this on my show.

The headline doesn’t mean anything at all. Well, sko means shoe, but that’s out of context.
The song is basically about a Swedish childrens character named Bamse (see link ablove). He’s a bear, gets strong if he eats a special kind of honey and has a best friend named Lille Skutt who’s a white rabbit, etc etc. In the song the two meet a kittycat (kissemiss) and Bamse tries to get the cat to come along by offering a meatball and they go to grandmother’s (Farmor) house.
That’s so stereotypically Swedish I shouldn’t even post this.
The song is sweet, but a bit silly, doesn’t really say anything.

yes, people, it’s a repost, which is fine. What’s bad is that I KNOW it’s a repost. Means I’ve been around long enough…

Oh, and poor kitty has something wrong with its right eye — hope it got better. It didn’t seem to bother the cat a whole lot… it was still rubbings its face into the horse’s back. Maybe it was allergic to horses. :)

You would probably think I was joking if I translated this for you, it’s crazy even in swedish :P
For example the lyrics tell us about a turtle named “Skalman” (= “Shell-man”) who apparently is so very tired, but it’s all sung as a child with a speech impediment would sing it…

@pny I’m with you. I listened to about 15 seconds of the song and had to turn off the sound. I love the cat, though, and the horse. I watched the moose clip from the link above and was totally fine with that song.

oh good lord.
the lepricahn-singing- person-whatever is incredibly irritating, WTF?(heck) I wanna stick a fork in my neck.
the ponie is so cute and the kitteh, but the moozack, too much!!!
pleeze save the kitteh and the ponie from further hoo-miliation from the singer of the song.

And Diane, btw, horses in general (and just about everywhere else, including, one assumes, Svensk) LOVE cats. Have you never heard of horses in the racing industry and their cats? Yep! It’s true! And lots of horses have stables cats as pals. ;)

And for you non Swedes out there, “Farmor” specifically means “father’s mother” (paternal grandmother). If it referred to the mother’s mother she’s be called “Mormor”, and paternal grandfather is “Farfar” and maternal grandfather is Farmor. I love that and now I’m missing my Mormor and Morfar :(

Cute and sweet; I had to play it with the sound off ’cause the Hubster is sleeping, so I haven’t heard the song yet. I love how the kitty changes positions about 2/3 through and pony kinda loses his balance. Kitty’s eye looks like my daughter’s after she has snorgled a cat – she is allergic. I think maybe a lot of the rubbing has to do with the eye’s discomfort.

Since I’ve had this song stuck in my head since YESTERDAY, I’ve managed to translate a few lines. “Bamse and Little-Skut were hopping through the forest/Along came a turtle and tripped on a cat/Bamse said, ‘Come, kitty kitty kitty!'”

I’d go on, but first I need to fortify myself with some of my Mormor’s THUNDERHONEY.

The video would not have been the same without the song, and the song would not have been the same without the video and thus I love them both. I really, really want to learn the song – it sounds like something I’d sing all day!

OMG did anyone google up some pictures of the cartoon characters? *head asplodes* Wake up Amurrica! I mean, I can deal with the Japanese handing us our asses, but the Swedes must be laughing theirs off at our lack of cute-ability.

Ok so the translation up above didn’t make a whole lot of sense so I have returned to clarify…

Bamse (name of bear) and Lille Skutt (name of rabbit) are walking through the woods and they run into Skalman (name of turtle) and they run into a cat and promise the cat meatballs when they arrive at Grandma’s house. Lille Skutt (being a bunny) runs ahead to get there first and Bamse says slow down, our legs aren’t as long as yours – plus Skalman is tiiired.

Then they get to Grandma’s and she says come into my little cabin and I’ll give you meatballs with lingonberry jam and lots of icecream! Bamse, you can have some honey – but Bamse says no thanks, I’m too full!

Then a housemouse comes out and says “Somebody stole the honey!” and it was Jansson’s cat! Bamse runs and catches him and tells him he’ll get a tummy ache, so be good and run along to Grandma’s house.

Swede, ha I know the translation’s crazy … it’s from an automatic Internet translator … they always come out completely insane but I thought it was funny enough to post, and in keeping with the overall surrealist mood of the video & comments. Thanks for the real translation!

I was having a WEIRD morning, and logged on to CO for some perspective as always, this is JUST what the doctor ordered! I should send you all the money I save in therapy bills. Meg and NTMTOM are National Treasures! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

It’s swedish. Where i’m from… ^_^
Its from a childrens book called “Bamse” I’ts a friendly bear that helps his friends, and gets extremely strong by drinking homemade honey his grandmother makes for him. Kinda like popeye.

The cat is audroable, i love the look he gives the camera in the end… “he is mine!”

Most swedish children grow up reading and watching Bamse, so we are all totally brain washed with messages like “the ones that are very strong must also be very kind” and believing that honey (thunderhoney!) will give us superhuman strength ;)

It should be made very clear that although this is a song *about* Bamse, it is NOT an official Bamse song. I have no idea who made this song (or why), but it’s not a part of Bamse canon in any way whatsoever.

It’s instrumental, so you don’t have to worry about funny Swedish words, apart from the written credits. ;)

Also, ANYONE who’s Swedish will instantly recognize this song (the theme tune, not that monstrosity in the cat-and-horse-video). If you want to verify if someone’s actually Swedish, don’t ask them to hum the Swedish national anthem – ask them to hum the Bamse theme tune. ;)

Another thing that I consider very swedish indeed: “Tornado” by Galenskaparna & After shave.
So here is a little song that I hope most of you swedes remember, and a cute dog ;)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QninLEMoHns

Bamse is the worlds strongest bear, champion of the weak, the poor, and the very very small. He gets his superpowers from thunderhoney, which his grandma (farmor) cooks for him. Farmor lives with a cat and a mouse. If anyone but Bamse eats the honey, they get a terrible stomachache for three days.

He has two best friends, Skalman (Shellman) and Lille skutt (little jumper). In this song, the whole gang is going to visit grandma, and get the cat to come along by bribing it with a meatball. Lille skutt jumps on ahead. Bamse asks him to wait, because Skalman, being a turtle, is tired.

They get to grandmas, and eat lots. Bamse doesn’t want any honey, because he’s full. The cat runs off with a jar, and they have to stop him, because if he eats it, he will get the dreaded tummyache. (Tummypinch, in swedish. Weird, I know.) They catch the kitty.

hahaha wow…
at the beginning it sounds like the lollipop guild from the wizard of oz. the song goes on to become more chipmunk-esque. very interesting, and hysterical, especially late at night and (as others have suggested) imagining the singing to be kitty’s voice.

I’m finnish, and I do know some swedish… The lyrics posted abowe are NOT swedish but norwegian. Swedish doesn’t have the funny O with a slash (/), and they say “och” not “og” amongst other things… So no wonder if some of you who di know some swedish couldn’t quite understand the written lyrics. I think the song was in swedish, tough.

It’s as some already said NOT the original song of Bamse but rather the Onkel Kånkel distorted version of it. At least these lyrics are completely “childproof”. Onkel Kånkel has also made songs with Bamse theme, but perhaps I should stick with the childproof theme and not mention the titles. Search Google if you wish to listen more, probably YouTube and otherwise facts in English are here at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkel_K%C3%A5nkel